Bonds PR Push is Too Little, Too Late

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  bheaney08/12/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Bonds PR Push is Too Little, Too Late

  I agree, but want to add that he is a PR nightmare for any team to take on. His checkered past will haunt him for the rest of his days, and teams realize that he would bring a negative media circus to town no matter where he goes. He is a disingenuine, entitled, lying villian. That should, and will, be his legacy.

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  EricWeiss08/12/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Bonds PR Push is Too Little, Too Late

  Aw, hooey! The P.R. push comes from Major League Baseball, that's who. Look, there are plenty of alleged PED users in basbeall -- many admitted, some current All-Stars who failed drug tests. There are many a-holes in basbeall. Bonds visited that kid in Marin with leukemia for years and the press here in SF absolutely refused to write about it. He was incedibly popular with the young fans and consistently led the league in All-Star voting, which made him one of the most popular player in the game. I know his image didn't play well with the white-guy 50-something sportswriters, but he was not exactly shunned by average baseball fans who paid to see the greatest ballplayer of their generation.
  
  It is simply amazing that no one is signing Bonds. All he did was lead the National League in OPS (the most comprehensive offensive statistic, by the way) last season on a bad leg. He's healthy, in great shape and will play for the minimum, His agent has stated that he will donate his salary to charity to buy tickets for underserved youth. So an owner will merely pay one of the best players in the game to turn around and buy tickets to his own enterprise. Still, no one wants this guy in their team? He is a proven gate attraction and is qualified basbeall asset for any team.
  
  Barry Bonds is any lineup is devastating. He certainly can't be any worse than Manny Ramirez in left -- in fact, his range factor last year was at the league average and he played on one leg. We are talking about the greatest offensive player in the past 50 years coming off a very good year! For the minimum salary. This is such a no-brainer that it looks more and more like Bonds is being blacklisted by MLB. Players who are racist, convicted felons, serial domestic abusers and injury-fakers are treated better than the best player in half a century? All we know about Bonds is what the media tells us about him. He's a stranger, after all and his relationship to fans is how he plays baseball. That's it. I don't have an opinion of his personality one way or another, but the court of public opinion, such as is, has spoken. And with an assist from the mainstream media, they have deeemed Barry Bonds to be the anti-christ.
  
  I think history will show this generation of owners and their feeble, conniving Commissioner, Bud Selig to be incompetent, dishonest and guilty of collusion. Making Barry Bonds the scapegoat for the all problems caused Selig and his owners is simply disgraceful. The P.R. ploy by MLB to cast Bonds in a corner is utterly transparent and shameful.
  
  Whichever organization signs Bonds will show great bravery, honesty and a commitment to winning that will be absolutely refreshing. I, for one, will be an automatic fan of any team that has the cajones to sign Bonds against the torrrent of media abuse.

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  bheaney08/15/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Bonds PR Push is Too Little, Too Late

  He's a liar and a cheat, and deserves nothing! And you can't be the best player of all time if you're a cheat! And you're wrong about him being loved by fans. Most in-the-know, non-Bay Area fans hate that chump because he is aloof and stand offish with everyone he comes in contact with. Good riddance to him says I!